There has been much attention given to the fundamental design and development of donor group functionalized organic molecules that can serve as coordinating ligands for s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions. After much effort in many laboratories, it is now possible, when electronic and architectural features are carefully controlled, to secure ligands that are remarkably selective in their binding preferences. This in turn leads to a host of novel applications for the ligands and their complexes. Through a combination of computational modeling, ligand synthesis and coordination chemistry we have been developing new families of chelating ligands that selectively recognize technically important 'hard' lanthanide and actinide ions. In this presentation, some of the recent progress from our group contributing to this activity will be summarized.

Organizing donors for specific tasks: Rational ligand designs for hard acceptors

247th National Meeting (2014)

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